Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

from my motionless

«Not once...

not even once...

me, Elliot» sek KATHERINE My body rocked with the movement of the carriage, the coachman urging the horses forward,

back the curtain, peering

endlessly toward the horizon, sheep grazing in the

sun sank behind the ever-present black clouds

realm, light always had to fight to

"Dont be nervous.

Freyas voice

met her wise, dark

eaten since

I couldnt.

bread refused to

word didnt even begin to describe what

cared for me, and now!

my hands together, a thousand thoughts racing

continued, and soon, the carriage halted

---- would be condemned.

know where it had come

mother had been the strange oneshe died after giving birth

We never knew her.

spoke

she was already on her way to that

heart to kill

her place, her daughter, and became the betrothed of the Duke living in the

a

out of wedlock, but no one dared to say it openly

they didnt

me

people of the Duchy whispered behind my back» ook I staggered toward

carpet and my own feet,

So much pain...

like that thing inside my body was consuming me, tearing

beat slower

white ceiling, my trembling hand

my final moments, I

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